I have a W-9 I'm trying to sign but I can't figure it out... When I click "fill and sign" it says "this form does not let you drag and drop"... what does this mean?? I used to be able to draw a signature in the previous version easily, but I can't find that option anywhere. I also tried to save a copy and use that but it still won't let me use "fill and sign".

So how the heck do I draw my signature? Or was this functionality taken away?

It probably has to do with the type of form it is. Most W9s that I've come across are XFA forms created by LiveCycle Designer that have been Reader-enabled. Such forms are restricted in what's sort of edits are allowed in Acrobat/Reader.

I am also having exactly the same problem with a form created from Microsoft Word with Acrobat Pro. I am new to Acrobat Pro and this is the 1st time I have created a PDF with fillable fields. For some reason this will not let a signature be drawn, which is the main reason I am using it (so I can get patients to sign medical consent forms).

I'm having the same problem with the W-9 and W-4 forms. The document properties even say that signing is allowed, according to the document restrictions summary, and viewing the document extensions shows that digital signing is allowed, but Adobe Acrobat Reader DC isn't giving the digital signing option. Sign Document is greyed out in the Signatures button.

What all of us in this thread want to do is place and "Electronic Signature" on a prefiled "Fillable" PDF Form.

What you say is true that "Signature Fields" are for digital certificate signatures not hand written or finger written signatures."

For this reason for what we are trying to do we would not create a "Signature Field" because having a "Signature Field" on the

document does not meet the requirements of what we desire to do, which is not to sign with a Digital Signature, but to sign with

a scanned copy of our handwritten signature which we would drag and drop on the signature line of the form.

This worked perfectly with Adobe Acrobat Pro XI, and appears to me to be a "bug" in Acrobat Pro DC which will cause me to

"downgrade" to Acrobat XI if it is not fixed soon, as this worked perfectly with that version.

Do the employees have digital certificates that can be used with PDF forms?

Do you know what the legal requirements are for signatures on this form?

The IRS form you are trying to replace with a company specific form has a warning about being subject to perjury for false statements.

The other three statements are meaningless for what we are trying to do.

The "employees" or signers do not have nor need to have nor want to have digital certificates to sign an IRS W-9 Form.

There are no legal requirements for signatures on the forms we are talking about, other than being the person whose signature is purpoted to be on the document.

In the case of the IRS form W-9 that the original poster wants to sign (I may have missed something but I saw no indication he wanted to replace it with a company form... simply wanted to sign it), what relevance the warning about being subject to perjury for false statements has to anything is unclear. The same warning would be there is you print out the form and signed it with a pen.

If it was only my signature that would work but we can have 100 applicants per month filling out applications, digital signatures will not work. Again, this worked with XI last week and now it doesn't.

I am employed at a place. They send me via email a blank W9 form. They want me to print it, sign it, scan it back in, then email it back to them.

I would rather not print something just to sign it and scan it back in.

The place at which I am employed doesn't want a digital certificate from me. They want to see my signature, like I wrote it on a piece of paper by hand. They wouldn't know what to do with a digital certificate!

I'm just trying to save a little paper and time. It used to work on the older version of the program and now it doesn't.

This was just confirmed with support that it is a bug in Acrobat DC and Reader DC. The only option is to uninstall DC and install XI. You can print/save the form then insert your signature once the pdf has been flattened. Obviously this is not the preferred method but will work. For me I will be uninstall both versions of DC and going back to XI.

I used Dave's link for the steps to uninstall Acrobat Pro DC and go back to XI.

I am having the SAME PROBLEM. I had no issue ever signing any forms with my saved signature using the old Adobe Software. But with the upgrade, I now get the message that I can't "drag or drop saved information" when I try to sign a "fillable" form". Is Adobe fixing this problem? Or is there a way to convert my fillable PDF's to flat/normal PDFs? I have no problems signing flat PDFs, just fillable are the issue.

Seriously Adobe... What are you doing? The Acrobat team needs to get on this ASAP. I can't believe it's been over two months with no official reply from them on this thread. The Illustrator and Photoshop teams run circles around these guys answering forum bug threads. This isn't just some small bug either. This is like an "Acrobat-rendered-useless" kind of bug. Gonna have to uninstall this "pretty" new version and go back and use the version that actually works. Oh how we all love spending an hour trying to do something that should have taken 10 seconds.

Has anyone figured out how to do this? when i open the signature field in acrobat dc, i can clearly see it marked as a sig field, i can put in MY digital signature, but anyone i send it to can't put anything at all in there.

If you have a digital signature field that others are not able to sign, then the problem is probably that they are using Adobe Reader (prior to version 11.07) and the document has not been Reader-enabled so that the digital signature usage right has been set.

workaround for me - filled in my where boxes needed to be filled. then using DoPDF version 8 that I downloaded for free, went to "Print" then selected that as my printer, saved new PDF to desktop. Reopened newly saved PDF that now has my selections and no longer having the fillable fields. now allows me to add my signature image to form and saved again. Im sure you could even use the "Adobe PDF" printer selection too but didn't try it as since they already messed one thing up, figured I would try something else that I know works. again, its adding an extra step to something that should have taken 10seconds but hey it works.

I too just want to be able to sign the forms as I always have done. This is not an upgrade. I subscribe to Adobe Creative Suite, and I am not amused at having to go back a decade to print, scan, and email a form I usually sign and send. Nor will digital certificates work here. What a pain. What a problem. Please fix this, Adobe.

I'm trying to fill and sign an I-9 form. My problem is that I can fill the forms, but then once I insert the signature I can only save as a copy and then when I attempt to print, it only prints the signature and ignores all of the forms that have been filled!

Since both Acrobat and LiveCycle have a field type of "signature" and I do not see that type of field on this form you might not be able to sign the form electronically and with the security applied to the form. It looks like Echo sign is the service so you may need to access that service to see the filled in and signed form.

When filling in the form I get some JavaScript errors in the JavaScript console.so I think there are a lot of issues that need to be addressed by the distributor of this form.

Maybe you need to contact the government agency issuing the form for some help.

I have been looking at this issue and have found as soon as I use FIll & Sign to add a signature to the file, when I do a save as, Acrobat Pro DC converts the form fields to Visible but doesn't print, read only and locks them. You need to unlock the field and change them to visible for them to print. Any chance that this is on Adobe's radar to fix?

Wanted to inform you folks that filling and signing "fillable PDF" forms capability is available in the latest updates which went live on July 14th, 2015. If not done yet, please update your Reader/Acrobat DC installs and you will find that a 'Sign' button appears in the app UI using which you can electronically sign the PDF files (provided it's not secured and has editing permissions).